| Description |
xix, 401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology ; 4 |
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Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology ; 4
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| Contents |
Conjugal power in Tokugawa Japanese families : a matter of life or death / G. William Skinner -- Skeletal evidence for sex roles and gender hierarchies in prehistory / Mark Nathan Cohen and Sharon Bennett -- Gender hierarchy and the queens of Silla / Sarah M. Nelson -- Gender hierarchy in Burma : cultural, social, and psychological dimensions / Melford E. Spiro -- Turning the tables? : male strippers and the gender hierarchy in America / Maxine L. Margolis and Marigene Arnold -- Women in Samoan history : a further critique of Derek Freeman / Eleanor Leacock -- Sanskritization as female oppression in India / Gerald D. Berreman |
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The anthropology of sex and gender hierarchies / Barbara Diane Miller -- Sex differences and gender hierarchies among primates : an evolutionary perspective / Adrienne L. Zihlman -- The evolution of human gender hierarchies : a trial formulation / Marvin Harris -- Blood : cultural effectiveness of biological conditions / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin -- Reproduction and gender hierarchy : amniocentesis in America / Rayna Rapp -- Variations in male-female dominance and offspring care in non-human primates / Patricia Chapple Wright -- Indexing gender / Elinor Ochs -- The politics of polygyny in Mende education and child fosterage transactions / Caroline Bledsoe -- Sexual repression, social control, and gender hierarchy in Sambia culture / Gilbert Herdt -- Primatological perspectives on gender hierarchies / Joan B. Silk |
| Summary |
"A generation of feminist research has explored the extent to which the roles - and expectations - of women and men vary across cultures. In this volume, leading anthropologists reflect on the evidence and theories, broadening the conventional field of comparison to include female/male relationships among non-human primates and introducing fresh case studies which range from lemurs to hominids, from Japanese peasants to male strippers in Florida, from skeletal remains of a Korean queen to mother/child conversations in Samoa. They document the rich and often surprising diversity in sex and gender hierarchies among both humans and non-human primates."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
Sex roles |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Gender identity.
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Primates -- Behavior.
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Sex differences -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Sex role -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Social status -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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Gender Identity.
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Behavior, Animal.
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Primates.
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Sex Characteristics.
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Social Class.
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| Author |
Miller, Barbara D., 1948-
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| LC no. |
91044144 |
| ISBN |
0521412978 |
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0521423686 (paperback) |
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